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Single-player games like My Drug Cartel

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to My Drug Cartel, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    Billion Egg Farm — Steam game cover

    Billion Egg Farm

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.

    SimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wanderers' Outpost — Steam game cover

    Wanderers' Outpost

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with My Drug Cartel.

    A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.

    2026SimulationEarly AccessSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Biofactory — Steam game cover

    Biofactory

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.

    2026StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factory Town 2: Paradise — Steam game cover

    Factory Town 2: Paradise

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Greedy Little Kingdoms — Steam game cover

    Greedy Little Kingdoms

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.

    2026StrategySingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Eureka — Steam game cover

    Eureka

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with My Drug Cartel.

    Eureka is an open-world business management simulator. From gold mining to wheat farming, choose your products, manage your resources, and grow your business however you see fit!

    2022SimulationEarly Access9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Autonauts — Steam game cover

    Autonauts

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    2019IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Steel Artery: Train City Builder — Steam game cover

    Steel Artery: Train City Builder

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stardew Valley — Steam game cover

    Stardew Valley

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cartel Simulator — Steam game cover

    Cartel Simulator

    Single-player alternative to My Drug Cartel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    Step into the shoes of a young man in a fictional 1980s Latin America. Embrace your destiny navigating a world fraught with drugs, violence, and bloodshed.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie10.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →